Acemoglu and Angrist (2000)

How Large are Human Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

Notes: The following programs create the estimates reported in two tables. Estimates other than those in the appendix were constructed similarly using the same data (three.rar). Coding and documentation for compulsory attendance laws are in a separate archive.

Programs: Click the links below to download program files:

    * AceAng2000_Table5.sas creates Table 5 in the paper.
    * table6_0.sas creates Table 6 in the paper

Data: Click the links below to download data:

    * CompSchoolLaws.rar contains data and documentation on compulsory attendance laws by state. CSLDOCs.txt explains the contents of the two data files.
    * three.rar is the micro data set used by the programs posted above. This is a large file.